AMERICAblog: Right wingers are still fighting against Clinton appointees
devlzadvocate
· 10 months ago
Some are still flying the Confederate flag and still fighting the Civil War.
NMRon
· 10 months ago
Rethugs don't have new ideas? Duh. Isn't that a requirement for membership in the rethuglican party? They're kinda like that planet in 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.' Every time one of them has a new idea, the party jumps up and slaps them in the head.
Older_Wiser
· 10 months ago
What? They're not happy with Ray LaHood?
Tough.
pdxprobert
· 10 months ago
Why is it that the Republicans get their way regardless if they are in the majority or the minority? And whose fault is that?
nicho
· 10 months ago
Isn't that odd? The Republicans can run the show from the minority position and the Dems can't do anything from the majority position.
But, Chris Hedges explains it:
The corporate forces that are looting the Treasury and have plunged us into a depression will not be contained by the two main political parties. The Democratic and Republican parties have become little more than squalid clubs of privilege and wealth, whores to money and corporate interests, hostage to a massive arms industry, and so adept at deception and self-delusion they no longer know truth from lies.
They always get their way with the help of Pelosi and Reid who kow - tow at the first sign of resistance. It those two actually stood up to them and represented the Democratic ideals, you wouldn't see that happening.
nicho
· 10 months ago
But having Rick Warren pray in the new administration is going to change all that -- right? No more opposition -- right? They'll just hold off and let Obama do his thing -- right?
Come on -- the guy reached out. Doesn't he get something in return?
Yeah -- thought so.
pdxprobert
· 10 months ago
Do you remember when some republican used the term "useful idiots" back around 2001? I think it Lucianne Goldberg if I recall... I wonder who she was referring to? Maybe the people who continually keep voting aginst their own best economic interests? Do you think Rush L would rub elbows at a bar with 99% of his audience? NOT
Butch1
· 10 months ago
Bingo!
Older_Wiser
· 10 months ago
Good quote from George Orwell in the Truthdig article Nicho posted:
“Large sections of the middle class are being gradually proletarianized; but the important point is that they do not, at any rate not in the first generation, adopt a proletarian outlook,” Orwell wrote in 1937 during the last economic depression. “Here I am, for instance, with a bourgeois upbringing and a working-class income. Which class do I belong to? Economically I belong to the working class, but it is almost impossible for me to think of myself as anything but a member of the bourgeoisie. And supposing I had to take sides, whom should I side with, the upper class which is trying to squeeze me out of existence, or the working class whose manners are not my manners? It is probable that I, personally, in any important issue, would side with the working class. But what about the tens or hundreds of thousands of others who are in approximately the same position? And what about that far larger class, running into millions this time—the office-workers and black-coated employees of all kinds—whose traditions are less definite middle class but who would certainly not thank you if you called them proletarians? All of these people have the same interests and the same enemies as the working class. All are being robbed and bullied by the same system. Yet how many of them realize it? When the pinch came nearly all of them would side with their oppressors and against those who ought to be their allies. It is quite easy to imagine a working class crushed down to the worst depths of poverty and still remaining bitterly anti-working-class in sentiment; this being, of course, a ready-made Fascist party.”
beware of the leopard
· 10 months ago
This essay is so close to our current reality it literally frightens me. "...a ready-made Fascist party". Yep, these are our fellow Americans in a nutshell. Too bad they're all a bunch of under/miseducated, willfully ignorant dupes. Especially some of the drinkers of the stronger, more potent variety of Obama-Aid. Oh, well.
Butch1
· 10 months ago
They've had eight years of what they liked, and even through the people voted for change in the presidential election, they do not think they have to follow the leadership of anyone other than their own right-wing dinosaurs. These people never have played well with others all their lives and they have always expected the games to be thrown their way. Very sore losers and they need to stand aside and shut up. We obviously, needed new leadership whether they think so or not. Perhaps, our new leaders will make it so bad for them they will want to get out of office. ( just a thought )
ProgressiveTroll
· 10 months ago
At least they aren't going to have the sergeant at arms arrest any of their fellow Repub Senators, like Harry Reid is going to do on Tuesday.
pdxprobert
· 10 months ago
Arrest or just not allow entrance to an unofficial body?
Gregory Lyons
· 10 months ago
None of this means shit. Pelosi is in power: NO MORE LAWS!!
Genocide...check Massive theft...check Trample the Constitiution...check
THERE IS NO MORE CRIME! NANCY UBER ALLES!!!
Butch1
· 10 months ago
You forgot one:
"Impeachment is off the table."
Dave of the Jungle
· 10 months ago
I don't think we could ever accuse a right winger of having an original thought.
lynchie
· 10 months ago
Now the Repubs are arguing that the New Deal helped prolong the depression.
During a Christmas Eve appearance on Fox News, I pointed out that most mainstream economists believe the government must boost the economy with deficit spending. That's when conservative pundit Monica Crowley said we should instead limit such spending because President Franklin Roosevelt's "massive government intervention actually prolonged the Great Depression." Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett eagerly concurred, saying "historians pretty much agree on that."
If Obama thinks that reaching out to these righrt wing motherfuckers will somehow quell their attacks and promote some degree of co operation he better get his head examined. The only thing they recognize is power and being kicked in the balls. Enabling them by pandering to Warren and not cutting off Lieberman will achieve absolutely nothing. Go to the left, keep your foot on the gas and bring this country back to a nation which supports its citizens not its corporations at the expense of the citizens.
MNUSA
· 10 months ago
FOX News and right-wing talk radio are the reason so many of our fellow citizens are idiots. They lie.
lynchie
· 10 months ago
Everyone lies these days. The problem is that 35% of the people are mentally challenged. That is why they relate to the moron in the white house. They love to have people tell them what to fear and Fox News and the Administration are there to fill the gap. Indeed the GOP have simply erased anything they have done over the past 8 years as not happening and are blaming everything on the Dems. the 35% believe it and will push to put them in when the next election roles around.
coolcatdaddy
· 10 months ago
Sigh. This is nothing new.
It's the 2000s, and they think it's the Clinton years.
In the 1980s, they thought it was the 1960s and were fighting all those battles again. In the 1950s, they acted like we were still in World War II.
Conservatives are all about trying to regain some kind of idealized past that wasn't really that great to begin with.
cowboyneok
· 10 months ago
Yes, but they aren't in charge anymore. They should be treated with the same irrelevance Democrats were treated with this past eight years.
Indigo
· 10 months ago
No doubt Rick Warren's blessing on the inauguration will make it all better.
MNUSA
· 10 months ago
Elections have consequences. I'm so sick and tired of their anti-science, anti-progress, anti-family, anti-intellect and pro-big business stand on everything. They deserve extinction. The Repubs lost! Now Obama gets to remake the government as he sees fit. Gees, maybe things will begin working again.
Scottsdalian
· 10 months ago
They simply cannot and will not accept that they are not in charge. They are still trying to control everything.
Their blocking efforts are a direct spit in the faces of the American population - the majority - that voted for, and demanded change.
The voters outright rejected conservative values.
And everyday we see and read new reasons to reject conservatism - from Wall Street reports, White House reports, economic reports.......the beating of the drums of doom are growing louder each day.
And yet the conservatives are still acting like they control everything.....but do not recognize the farce of everyday evidence that their policies don't work as they demand that Obama continue their excellent work!
cowboyneok
· 10 months ago
Elections should have consequences. I don't call the outright HUGE REJECTION of conservative ideology in this last election as being analagous to "crashing the gates!" The gates have been opened WIDE by the American people for FIGHTING PROGRESSIVES to run in and sweep out the old shit that got us in this incredible mess!
Just a little stereotypical posturing because it allows me to turn such a nice phrase; let's conjure up a fairly smooth maitre'd to the Transition:
"Ms. Skaer, Mr. Clegg, it is something of a surprise to see you here. I had rather a firm impression that your invitations were lost in the election. Ms. Achtenburg and Mr. Lee found theirs there, perhaps they could advise you on how to do that, sometime next year. I am so sorry Mr. Helms, but only a very few of the dead are invited to consult here, and you did not make the cut."
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Tough.
But, Chris Hedges explains it:
The corporate forces that are looting the Treasury and have plunged us into a depression will not be contained by the two main political parties. The Democratic and Republican parties have become little more than squalid clubs of privilege and wealth, whores to money and corporate interests, hostage to a massive arms industry, and so adept at deception and self-delusion they no longer know truth from lies.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081229_wh...
Come on -- the guy reached out. Doesn't he get something in return?
Yeah -- thought so.
“Large sections of the middle class are being gradually proletarianized; but the important point is that they do not, at any rate not in the first generation, adopt a proletarian outlook,” Orwell wrote in 1937 during the last economic depression. “Here I am, for instance, with a bourgeois upbringing and a working-class income. Which class do I belong to? Economically I belong to the working class, but it is almost impossible for me to think of myself as anything but a member of the bourgeoisie. And supposing I had to take sides, whom should I side with, the upper class which is trying to squeeze me out of existence, or the working class whose manners are not my manners? It is probable that I, personally, in any important issue, would side with the working class. But what about the tens or hundreds of thousands of others who are in approximately the same position? And what about that far larger class, running into millions this time—the office-workers and black-coated employees of all kinds—whose traditions are less definite middle class but who would certainly not thank you if you called them proletarians? All of these people have the same interests and the same enemies as the working class. All are being robbed and bullied by the same system. Yet how many of them realize it? When the pinch came nearly all of them would side with their oppressors and against those who ought to be their allies. It is quite easy to imagine a working class crushed down to the worst depths of poverty and still remaining bitterly anti-working-class in sentiment; this being, of course, a ready-made Fascist party.”
Genocide...check
Massive theft...check
Trample the Constitiution...check
THERE IS NO MORE CRIME!
NANCY UBER ALLES!!!
"Impeachment is off the table."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/01/02...
During a Christmas Eve appearance on Fox News, I pointed out that most mainstream economists believe the government must boost the economy with deficit spending. That's when conservative pundit Monica Crowley said we should instead limit such spending because President Franklin Roosevelt's "massive government intervention actually prolonged the Great Depression." Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett eagerly concurred, saying "historians pretty much agree on that."
If Obama thinks that reaching out to these righrt wing motherfuckers will somehow quell their attacks and promote some degree of co operation he better get his head examined. The only thing they recognize is power and being kicked in the balls. Enabling them by pandering to Warren and not cutting off Lieberman will achieve absolutely nothing. Go to the left, keep your foot on the gas and bring this country back to a nation which supports its citizens not its corporations at the expense of the citizens.
It's the 2000s, and they think it's the Clinton years.
In the 1980s, they thought it was the 1960s and were fighting all those battles again. In the 1950s, they acted like we were still in World War II.
Conservatives are all about trying to regain some kind of idealized past that wasn't really that great to begin with.
Their blocking efforts are a direct spit in the faces of the American population - the majority - that voted for, and demanded change.
The voters outright rejected conservative values.
And everyday we see and read new reasons to reject conservatism - from Wall Street reports, White House reports, economic reports.......the beating of the drums of doom are growing louder each day.
And yet the conservatives are still acting like they control everything.....but do not recognize the farce of everyday evidence that their policies don't work as they demand that Obama continue their excellent work!
BARAK OBAMA history in Pictures : http://tinyurl.com/Barak-Obama-photo-history
"Ms. Skaer, Mr. Clegg, it is something of a surprise to see you here. I had rather a firm impression that your invitations were lost in the election. Ms. Achtenburg and Mr. Lee found theirs there, perhaps they could advise you on how to do that, sometime next year. I am so sorry Mr. Helms, but only a very few of the dead are invited to consult here, and you did not make the cut."